Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

Chaiter Haters united

Guy at the gym is watching the news and crying lmao

— The “Avenge JFK” Celtics (@NBABabySecret) May 30, 2024

cry more

i just went to a hipster coffee bar and everyone there was crying and firing shotguns

trump was low energy. and sad looking. like a drunk guy on one of those bodycam videos i watch on youtube trying to explain to the cop why he was fine and should be driving and how he always drives on this road and there was no reason to stop him. even though he was weaving in and out of his lane and going 80 in a 40.

I saw a boomer cryin' over a piña colada at Trader Vic's

don't look back
you can never look back

Fuckboys of Summer

seems like he's blatantly violating the gag order yet again

if you like pina coladas
and falsifyin' the reign

"Trump Lashes Out With Misleading Speech" is the full width headline at the times right now.

lot of speculation over how an emphatic conviction will affect voters, but less over whether it will cause smooth-brained both-sides journalists to stop equivocating, which is an interesting possibility.

(obviously not chait, he's going to keep digging)

It's not far to never never land
No reason to pretend
And if the wind is right you can find the joy
Of innocence again
Oh, the canvas can do miracles
Just you wait and see, believe me

Jailing
Takes me away to where I've always been meant to be

(obviously not chait, he's going to keep digging)

and peter baker

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/31/us/politics/biden-trump-guilty-verdict.html

why does it still surprise me how all in 100% pro-trump the republicans are? they are really going down with the ship. its crazy. are they really that frightened of coal miners and nascar moms or do they really think they will get all the crap they want from him when he's president again? or are they just insane masochists? they are probably all of the above. have there ever been this many cowards in power?

“America just witnessed a confused, desperate, and defeated Donald Trump ramble about his own personal grievances and lie about the American justice system, leaving anyone watching with one obvious conclusion: This man cannot be president of the United States,” Biden campaign communications director Michael Tyler said in a statement.

Tyler added: “Unhinged by his 2020 election loss and spiraling from his criminal convictions, Trump is consumed by his own thirst for revenge and retribution.”

And the Ayr Advertiser comes through once again 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/LX9x3C7FzV

— Georgie the Ayrshire Geek (@GeorgieTheGeek) May 31, 2024

ha ha

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republican-lawmakers-donald-trump-guilty-verdict-resign_n_6658fafde4b08f9fa13ff7aa

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Perp walk!

"have there ever been this many cowards in power?" For June Thread Title

It's unfortunate that a sombre snare drummer wasn't present to accompany his walk out of the courthouse

https://mapsaboutnothing.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/pines-of-mar-gables1.png

Shoulda just been a bunch of instant rimshots

listening to biden right now is such a contrast to dim bulb trump but i can't help but cringe when i hear his old man slurring thing. i just wish he would take his time more and enunciate. it makes him sound drunk sometimes.

oh man when biden was walking away they asked him about trump and he stopped and gave this weird smile and then kept walking. you should have seen that face he made.

Biden's been slurring his words since 1977

i took a picture...

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lol

Couldn't help it - had to make it a Biden reaction GIF pic.twitter.com/c629zQZpS1

— Chris Strider (@stridinstrider) May 31, 2024

lol pretty good

haha

I love it, he looks like the proverbial cat w/canary

Man, that's end-of-The-Omen good!

sad.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/31/business/media/cnn-nbc-trump-speech.html

Several major networks cut away from former President Donald J. Trump on Friday during an appearance that had been promoted as a news conference at Trump Tower devolved into a rambling and misleading speech.

Biden made the face of a man who knows he's going to be memed and gifed for the next week

an appearance that had been promoted as a news conference at Trump Tower devolved into a rambling and misleading speech.

This is like huffily walking out of a GG Allin show

chaits still got it

― Ned Raggett, Friday, May 31, 2024 4:52 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

"A lot depends on what happens next."

amazing spin from the GOP lately, "this is only going to help Donald Trump". like yeah there were a whole lotta people on the fence until they saw him falling asleep at the felony trial which he lost, big time. they're sitting there going well now I have no choice to vote for this man. how dare they go after this man? even the "if they can do this to him they can do this to anyone!" thing, as though there's a single voter on the planet in position to commit these specific crimes (obviously Trump still could, but he's no longer allowed to vote). and then going "ooh they're doing this to fuck with the election", ignoring the fact that Trump's team did everything possible to delay this trial for years, almost as if the entire goal was to delay it until after he won the nomination. they did all this shit to themselves.

"if they can do this to him they can do this to anyone!"

they did it to John Edwards lol

I mean we can only speculate how this will ultimately affect things but I think this at least changes the way everything is framed. you don't have to use terms like "allegedly" or "accused" anymore, you can come right out and say it, he's a convicted felon. he went through the same justice system as everyone else and they found him to be guilty as hell. the evidence was all there. a jury unanimously found him guilty of everything. he's got 3 more criminal trials in the hopper and guess what he's almost certainly guilty on all those too.

again, the GOP is spinning around going "no no no this is all actually good" but idk, if your winning message in 2016 was "vote for me because my opponent is a criminal" and now it's "look at all these criminals crossing the border!" it's probably not great to be a convicted felon yourself

imo the law whats legal and whats not whos a criminal is a huge mostly unexamined psychological foundation of the status quo, obviously its a material foundation in a very real way too, in america at least everyone considers themselves a wily maverick but i think actually the law is super influential in peoples general judgement of whats socially acceptable, weed legalization is a good example of this smoking weed talking about "cannabis" became totally socially acceptable overnight where before its not like it was murder or theft but it wasnt something most people just talked about with anyone at any time it was somewhat taboo, anyway i dont think this conviction is good for trump

competent counsel is out of reach now as well.. nobody wants to work for him but hack ambulance chasers, I can't imagine the appeal going anywhere

I only saw about two minutes' worth of the 33-minute(!) self-pity-a-thon from this morning, but all I could think of was Lenny Bruce in the final year or so of his career, when he'd show up for supposed stand-up comedy gigs and start literally reading from the transcripts of his obscenity trials. Like, I never found Trump entertaining or funny, but clearly millions of people did. But this is what his rallies and public appearances are going to be from now until November — him standing up there whining about how unfairly he was treated, like a loser. And he's not gonna be able to help himself. The wound to his psyche has got to have been overwhelming.

also I'm curious what this means for his biggest fans, like I am pretty sure that what I'm seeing today in terms of Trump flags/lawn signs/MAGA hats already is far less than it was in 2020 around this time, and now that he's a felon I can't imagine they're rushing to put the signs back up. which is not to say they won't vote for him anyway, but as it stands if declaring your support of Trump turns into this embarrassing thing where the immediate response is "WHY ARE YOU SUPPORTING THIS PATHETIC CRIMINAL" it's probably a real bad sign for the swing states he has to win

xpost That's what I was thinking, too. As soon as I heard his voice, I wanted desperately (as always) for someone in attendance to just cut his tongue out for the sake of humanity, but hey, if he just wants to ramble incoherently for the next five months about mundane minutia that only has an impact on him and that is just going to bore and confuse literally every other human on earth, shit, have at it.

It was like the thing where I occasionally find myself getting way too in the weeds about some work thing with someone who has no idea what I'm talking about and probably couldn't care less and I stop myself before their eyes start to glaze over except without the part where I stop myself.

all I could think of was Lenny Bruce in the final year

was thinking the same thing... the red meat for his followers is build the wall, lock her up (!), deport everyone... if he just becomes a sad Dangerfieldesque 'no respect' loser parody, they'll be pretty disappointed

(some of Jello Biafra's spoken word has this indignant self-pity as well)

http://x.com/Acyn/status/1796625872541372659

The above is a video clip of Paul Begala on CNN saying in part, "In a way, I feel some pity for him. He’s an obese, flatulent old man with bad makeup and weird hair who had to sit in a courtroom and listen to a porn star testify about how bad he is in bed."